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Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba

Polarization-encoded spin-photon interfaces constitute promising candidates for the development of stationary nodes used as photon receivers, for quantum communication and distributed quantum computing. Here we introduce a time-resolved…

We study the magnon spin photocurrent in effective spin models for Cr2O3, a material known for its magnetoelectric effect. Using nonlinear response theory, we show that magnon spin current can be generated by both linearly and circularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Zhuo-Cheng Gu , Hiroaki Ishizuka

Owing to exchange interaction between the exciton and magnetic ion, a quantum dot embedding a single magnetic ion is a great platform for optical control of individual spin. In particular, a quantum dot provides strong and sharp optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Aleksander Rodek , Tomasz Kazimierczuk , Aleksander Bogucki , Tomasz Smoleński , Wojciech Pacuski , Piotr Kossacki

We theoretically model the electronic dynamics of a coupled quantum dot pair in a static electric field. We then investigate the possibility of polarization-entangled photon emission from the radiative cascade of the molecular biexciton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Cameron Jennings , Michael Scheibner

Weak spin-orbit coupling produces very limited current induced spin accumulation in semiconductor nanostructures. We demonstrate a possibility to increase parametrically the spin polarization using the Kondo effect. As a model object we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 V. N. Mantsevich , D. S. Smirnov

The ability to control and exploit quantum coherence and entanglement drives research across many fields ranging from ultra-cold quantum gases to spin systems in condensed matter. Transcending different physical systems, optical approaches…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 K. Müller , T. Kaldewey , R. Ripszam , J. S. Wildmann , A. Bechtold , M. Bichler , G. Koblmüller , G. Abstreiter , J. J. Finley

Spin-polarized electron beam sources enable studies of spin-dependent electric and magnetic effects at the nanoscale. We propose a method of creating spin-polarized electrons on an integrated photonics chip by laser driven nanophotonic…

We show that ionization of noble gas atoms by strong infrared circularly polarized laser field under standard exerimental conditions can yield electrons with up to 100% spin polarization in energy resolved measurements. Spin polarization…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 Ingo Barth , Olga Smirnova

In this study, we examine a photonic wire waveguide embedded with an ensemble of quantum dots that directionally emits into the waveguide depending on the spin state of the ensemble. This is accomplished through the aid of the spin-orbit…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-24 Wenbo Lin , Yasutomo Ota , Satoshi Iwamoto , Yasuhiko Arakawa

Quantum states of light are central resources for quantum communication, networking, and photonic information processing. In many quantum emitters, coherent internal dynamics arising from intrinsic or field-induced level splittings imprint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ismail Nassar , Dan Cogan , Ido Schwartz

We present an experimental and theoretical study of the polarized photoluminescence spectrum of single semiconductor quantum dots in various charge states. We compare our high resolution polarization sensitive spectral measurements with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Poem , J. Shemesh , I. Marderfeld , D. Galushko , N. Akopian , D. Gershoni , B. D. Gerardot , A. Badolato , P. M. Petroff

We demonstrate that efficient optical pumping of nuclear spins in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) can be achieved by resonant pumping of optically "forbidden" transitions. This process corresponds to one-to-one conversion of a photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. A. Chekhovich , M. N. Makhonin , K. V. Kavokin , A. B. Krysa , M. S. Skolnick , A. I. Tartakovskii

We in this paper study theoretically the spin-polarized quantum transport through a T-shape quantum dot-array by means of transfer-matrix method along with the Green^{,}s function technique. Multi-magnetic fields are used to produce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rui Wang , J. -Q. Liang

We theoretically investigated the mechanism of quantum entanglement between the spin of photoelectrons and linear polarization of emitted X-ray photons in the 3$d\rightarrow\ $2$p$ XEPECS process for $\rm Ti_{2}O_{3}$. In the calculation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Ryo B. Tanaka , Goro Oohata , Takayuki Uozumi

We show that the tunable hybridization between two lateral quantum dots connected to non-magnetic current leads in a `hanging-dot' configuration that can be used to implement a bipolar spin filter. The competition between Zeeman, exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Mireles , E. Cota , F. Rojas , S. E. Ulloa

Photocurrents are calculated for a specially designed GaMnAs semiconductor heterostructure. The results reveal regions in the infrared range of the energy spectrum in which the proposed structure is remarkably spin-selective. For such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Anibal T. Bezerra , Leonardo K. Castelano , Marcos H. Degani , Marcelo Z. Maialle , Paulo F. Farinas , Nelson Studart

We propose a new method to realize a conversion of photon qubit and spin qubit using the effective magnetic field created by the nuclear polarization known as Overhauser field. We discuss its preliminary experiment on InAlAs/AlGaAs…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Muto , S. Adachi , T. Yokoi , H. Sasakura , I. Suemune

We have studied the time evolution of the electron spin polarization under continuous photoexcitation in remotely n-doped semiconductor quantum wells. The doped region allows us to get the necessary excess of free electrons to form trions.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Aceituno , A. Hernandez-Cabrera

The polarisation of light is a powerful and widely used degree of freedom to encode information, both in classical and quantum applications. In particular, quantum information technologies based on photons are being revolutionised by the…